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	Archive > August, 2006	Vol. VII, No. 8

Editor's Page

Sitting in Judgment of a Surgeon

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Dan O When we retired to the jury room, we had but one question to deliberate: Was the defendant negligent of failing to properly diagnose a cancerous colon polyp? Luckily for surgeon William H. Ayers Jr., MD, this was a wrongful death suit, not a fraudulent billing case.

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